Talent-Swallowing Magician - Chapter 146

Episode 146

Otto Han

‘In Arbae, he was middle-aged… but here, he’s an old man.’

Elric smiled bitterly as he looked at Otto Han.

In his memories, Otto Hahn was always a person who looked dignified on the outside but was a troublemaker on the inside.

But now that I look at him like this, doesn’t he seem like a very strict scholar?

Although his eyes were tightly closed, it seemed as if he would open them at any moment and look at the book. Then, if there was something I didn’t like, I would get angry and look at everything in the world with disapproving eyes.

Even as he got older, Otto Hahn was still Otto Hahn. It occurred to me that I wanted to age gracefully like this.

‘for a moment. ‘Then how many years have you been here like this?’

Elric suddenly had a thought and tried to calculate exactly when Otto Hahn ruled Mervinger.

however.

『Ha.』

Mephisto, who had remained silent until now, suddenly burst into laughter. Elric wondered why, but when he turned his head towards him, Mephisto started to burst into laughter.

『Hahahaha!』

Mephisto laughed, paying no heed to Elric’s questioning gaze.

Elric couldn’t say anything to him for a moment.

For some reason, his laughter seemed to be a mixture of contradictory emotions, such as relief and bitterness.

『Otto Han, Otto Han!』

Mephisto’s eyes, looking down at Otto Han, were suddenly filled with madness.

『I was wondering just in case… but in the end, you too were a human being! Mephisto seemed to be feeling a mixture of emotions as he looked at his former nemesis who

once blocked their steps, even you who seemed like a monster who acted like you would always be there!

『But it’s rather unfair. It’s sad. It was because of you that I had to kneel, so I promised myself over and over again that one day, when I stand up again, I will take revenge on you and those who followed you with the hand of this king… In the end, those were just fleeting and vain promises. haha. Hahaha.』

When I first met Mephisto in the dragon’s nest. This guy clearly told Elric.

He had the chance to be resurrected several times, but he still held back and waited for the right vessel to appear.

Maybe the reason wasn’t to avenge the defeat he had to endure at the hands of Otto Han and others?

The demon god and the four great demon kings were so powerful that they seemed to devour the continent, but in the end, they were unable to overcome the barrier of the four major vassals, including the founder and Otto Han.

Trying to overcome it somehow was an attitude that could be said to be natural.

『It shouldn’t be like this. It shouldn’t be like this! If you close your eyes while smiling so comfortably, the resentment that will linger in the King’s heart! The scream! What can I do with grief?』

If Mephisto had any power left, it was clear that this dungeon would quickly become overrun with demonic energy.

Otherwise, it might just have collapsed.

However, Mephisto’s outstretched hand passed through Otto Han in vain.

This made Mephisto even more angry. It fanned the boiling anger.

『At least give me an answer!』

Elric looked at Mephisto for a while and then slowly approached Otto Han.

Mephisto still had a grumpy expression on his face, but when Elric appeared next to him, he woke up from his own world and took a step back. Still, both eyes were twinkling with madness.

I guess this is Mervinger’s ‘Winter’ that I’ve only heard about.

If I swallowed it wrong, would I get in trouble?

Meanwhile, Hull’s thoughts seemed excited to see Otto Hahn, perhaps because he had never clashed with Mervinger that much in his life.

And yet, he must have already sensed the deep magical power contained in Otto Han’s remains.

For a guy who used to salivate in front of tasty food no matter how much it was, surprisingly, he didn’t show any greed just now.

This probably means that Otto Han seemed harmful to him.

So Elric became even more curious.

What is the secret that Otto Hahn holds?

What exactly is the seal of the winter world?

And…

‘What is our family’s secret?’

I hope that coming here will be an opportunity to get answers to those secrets and questions.

Elric stretched out his hand to one side of Otto.

That moment.

Flutter!

Fasce –

Before my fingertips could touch it, Otto Hahn’s remains began to break into small pieces and scatter in all directions.

And in an instant, it was carried by the blowing wind and sucked into Elric’s fingertips. In line with it, the seal of the winter world shined brilliantly and the magic sword trembled loudly.

‘The magic gemstone is melting quickly…!’

But there was something else that surprised Elric.

Even though he did not intervene in the operation of the magic power, the magic power drew a circular path at will.

I instinctively tried to stop it, but the magic power didn’t budge.

Rather, he just pioneered his own path.

It was as if something invisible was actively interfering with magical power.

It didn’t take long to figure out that it was Otto Hahn’s work of thought.

Whihwihwi!

The magical power continued to circulate again and again, falling into a vein that Elric had never explored before.

What’s interesting is that the circuit being created in this way does not conflict with Elric’s existing circuit of magic arts…!

No, on the contrary, they were making up for the shortcomings and improving them to a point that even Augustine could not pay attention to.

The Mana Road has become so dense and complex that it is difficult to describe it as a road anymore.

It occurred to me that Elric should be called something completely different.

Circuit network.

That was a crazy moment.

Flash!

Elric’s vision momentarily reversed.

“…This place?”

When Elric opened his eyes again, he realized that he had entered the world of images, just like when he accessed other arrangements.

However, unlike the usual variety of backgrounds, now everything was pure white.

“It’s the other side.”

Elric turned his head towards a familiar voice.

Before I knew it, Otto Hahn was looking this way and smiling.

I was sitting in a rocking chair that looked exactly like the one I saw in Saga.

The area around his glasses-wearing eyes was full of wrinkles compared to when I saw him before. A middle-aged man in his 50s looked as if he had aged into his 70s for a moment.

“If you say Pian…?”

“This is where we reached and someday you will reach.”

“…?”

“You don’t have to know yet. “It’s not that important.”

Elric nodded quietly and looked at Otto Han quietly.

“You probably have a lot of questions, right?”

“yes.”

“I guess so. There will be a lot of things that you don’t understand with the common sense you have so far. “I may not be able to answer all your questions, but since you’ve come this far, I’ll answer a few as a thank you for your hard work.”

Otto Hahn clapped lightly.

match!

Then the pure white world surrounding them reversed once again.

Elric could see the world spread out beneath his feet.

It was a familiar sight.

A wide horizon.

A cliff that stands tall and alone.

And… a person standing above him wearing a robe.

Is it a man or a woman? He couldn’t tell if he was an old man or a young man, and he had a deep smile on his face. The emblem drawn on the back of the robe particularly caught my eye.

It was clearly the man in my dreams who wielded dragons and handled giants!

‘father!’

Elric could now be convinced of the doubts he had been harboring in his head.

It was clearly that person. No, it wouldn’t have made any sense if it wasn’t for that person. Would it be possible to show that level of spirit and still be relaxed if you weren’t someone who helped lead the Mervinger family?

Moreover, unlike in the previous dream, there were four more men and women by his side. One of them was a familiar face.

It was Otto Hahn.

To be exact, Otto Hahn in his youth.

He looked much younger than the others.

Maybe that’s why there seemed to be a lot of dissatisfaction with everything.

His lips were sticking out.

“I’ll let you finish playing the games you were playing. “There are a few rounds left…!”

Bah!

At that time, a woman with long red hair, as if she didn’t want to listen to Otto Hahn’s words, hit him hard on the back of the head with the stick she was holding in her hand.

“Ahh!”

“It’s not even a sparrow, and it’s so noisy it’s killing me. “You’re so crazy, can you stay still?”

“I’m going to speak with my own mouth, but who cares… Ah! “I hit you again!”

Sigh! Sigh! Wow!

“It hurts!”

Wow!

“Okay, I’ll stop! “You can stop!”

Every time young Otto Hahn resisted, the woman continued to pat the back of his head in silence.

No matter how hard he tried to avoid it, the gombang was flying at him like a ghost, and in the end, young Otto Hahn had to declare surrender by raising his arms, crying, and eating mustard.

but.

Wow!

The woman hit him with a stick much harder than she had ever hit him before. This time, the sound was so loud that it made other people flinch and tremble, making people wonder if their skulls had really been broken.

“Why on earth this time…!”

“Because the back of my head looks shiny. “It was at just the right angle to hit.”

“…!”

Young Otto Hahn’s face turned red and he tried to scream, but when the woman glared back at him as if asking what he was going to do, he had to twitch his tail.

‘No matter how young he was, he treated Otto Han like that…’

As Elric, it felt like seeing a new world.

Seeing the person who had always bullied me to death getting bullied instead made me think that maybe he had used what he had learned(?) on himself.

Elric somehow seemed to know who the red-haired woman was.

A woman with intelligent eyes but a haughty expression.

He was the number one among the four major vassals and was said to be the strongest among them in terms of his magical power and destructive power.

Christina Mervinger.

Elric somehow thought that she might be ‘Summer’ among the four major vassals called ‘Four Seasons’.

Not only did she boast a more overbearing personality than anyone else, but the wind that followed her was so hot that it made the air stir several times.

She narrowed her eyes as she put the bear she was holding in her hand to her mouth.

Phew –

when the smoke spreads and gradually becomes cloudy.

“…come.”

The older man, who had the bulkiest physique but whose eyes were so warm and reminiscent of ‘spring’, muttered in a low voice.

That moment.

Kwakwakwakwa!

The sky, which had been blue just a moment ago, was seen turning black for an instant.

And below that.

Unlike the progenitor and the four major retainers standing at the edge of the cliff, five beings with a fierce spirit appeared.

Two of them were people Elric knew well.

A young man who breathed life into General Dong.

Demon God.

And Mephisto was standing next to him.

A demon god and four great demon kings appeared.

As if a mirror was placed in the center.

The two camps, whose personnel and temperaments were completely opposite, soon began a war.

Wizard who swallowed talent